El concepto de salario emocional

This paper aims to list the different variables that have been written about Emotional Salary (ES) and establish a definition of the concept itself, through a bibliographic search between 2014 and 2019, in different scientific databases, using as searching words: salary, emotional compensation, emotional salary, work motivation and emotions at work; several meanings that refer to the term ES were identified, proposing our definition for the concept Emotional Salary, as the outward and within elements of work that generates positive emotions. Concluding that the ES, contributes to the generation of favorable and healthy organizational environments. Keywords: salaries and fringe benefits, employee incentive plans, concept formation.